Buying an apartment in a new building is always profitable: it is not only a real saving on the family budget, a dream come true about living in a new comfortable residential area, but also an opportunity to become a full-fledged designer of your own home. Empty walls provide the opportunity to create, bring unprecedented fantasies to life and experiment in all directions. Our staff invites you to arrange a studio apartment, the main focus of which will be a comfortable, spacious and functional dressing room.
Extravagant minimalism
A dressing room in a modern studio apartment can become something much more useful than a large closet filled with the owners’ things. In this case, storage for things can play the role of a stylish decoration, a non-standard partition between individual interior parts. Every detail installed or located in such a cabinet should decorate, refresh the space and emphasize the unusual taste of the home owners.
Arranging a dressing room should begin with choosing a location. Think about what you want to share:
- sleeping area and kitchen;
- kitchen and living room;
- sanitary area and living space?
In any of these options, you can install two entrances to the storage unit at once, so that you can get there from different sides.
Space organization schemes
Classical: use of body elements
This scheme is traditional. Here, all furniture elements are displayed along the walls (or one wall), without gaps, close to each other. They are often secured at the ends with special fasteners so that the structure becomes a single whole. Such wardrobe systems have standard parameters and can be supplemented, transformed and swapped in any way if the need arises.
This is a kind of construction set that you can “play” with at any time without spending much effort.
Modern panel systems
Users appreciate the ease of installation and visual lightness of such modules. They consist of simple structures in the form of shelves, racks, drawers, hangers and stands. With the correct organization of such a dressing room, you will have the impression that the furniture weighs absolutely nothing, and even literally “floats” in the air. A dressing room project using panel systems will allow you to expand and modify the furniture if you just want to change something in the interior.
If necessary, dressing room owners can compactly fold disassembled items into drawers and boxes to easily transport them to a new place of residence.
Light and cozy
We should not forget that the comfort and functionality of the dressing room cannot be organized if you do not take care of good lighting. If opaque partitions are installed, it is necessary to install several additional light sources in addition to the central lamp to make it easier to find the right thing.
If light enters the room from the main part of the apartment, you can limit yourself to only one or two lighting fixtures (sconces, LED lighting, etc.) in order to easily navigate the space in the dark.
Wardrobe in a studio room.
Thanks to the right approach, as well as strict adherence to the instructions provided in this article, you can make a high-quality dressing room with your own hands. In this case, a dressing room can be built using two common methods. In the first case, you can simply convert the pantry. In the second case, the dressing room is built with your own hands using plasterboard.
Before you start creating a room for a wardrobe, you need to familiarize yourself with some requirements.
Requirements for a dressing room
- The dressing room should be at least one and a half meters. These dimensions are minimum. They allow you to arrange all the shelves, drawers and hangers in a minimally comfortable manner.
- An excellent option is if the room provides space in the dressing room for a large mirror, as well as a place for changing clothes.
- It is necessary to provide ventilation in a small storage space. Otherwise, things will become saturated with a musty smell.
- It is worth considering that the area for a short wardrobe can have dimensions of 50x100 centimeters. At the top you can place additional areas for storage.
- The depth of the zone for dresses and outerwear should not be less than half a meter, and the height of this zone should not be less than one and a half meters.
Before you start arranging your own dressing room, you need to know what exactly and how many things the dressing room is designed to store. This room should not be equipped in reserve or for the future.
Arranging a dressing room from a storage room
A convenient option for arranging a dressing room with your own hands is a traditional pantry. In this case, you will not need to devote much time to finishing. Here it will be enough to remove everything unnecessary from the pantry. In this case, you can carry out a full or cosmetic repair. Next, you need to plan areas for clothing, as well as purchase all the necessary wardrobe parts. The next step is to install these elements in the required areas and locations.
It should be noted that a properly equipped dressing room should consist of two halves.
First half
This part is a long vertical area. This part will contain things on hangers. The lower part will contain the space needed to store shoes.
Second half
This part of the space is partitioned off with shelves. Drawers will be installed there. The second half is where you store a variety of small items, towels and linen.
Dressing room using plasterboard
In this case, the process will be quite complicated. This requires certain skills and patience. In this case, you will need to independently construct the entire dressing room. First of all, you need to clearly determine the location of the room, as well as its exact dimensions. Thanks to the dimensions, the amount of required building materials is calculated.
The advantage of this type of dressing room is that it can be made anywhere in your home and of the required size, since we build everything from scratch.
This method requires the following tools and materials:
- screwdriver and screwdriver set;
- insulation (mineral wool and the like);
- primer (in principle, any finishing primer will do);
- lightweight metal profile – 50 – 100 millimeters (purchased together with drywall);
- putty, both for rough and finishing;
- special metal fastening elements (suspensions);
- plasterboard sheets.
After which you can consider the features of installing a dressing room using plasterboard.
Frame assembly
First, the profile is marked. Next, blanks are cut from it for the future floor, ceiling and walls. Cutting is carried out using special scissors. Do-it-yourself installation of floor profiles is done using a screwdriver and self-tapping screws.
Then vertical wall profiles are installed. Next is the installation of horizontal ceiling profiles. To impart rigidity and strength to the structure, it is necessary to fasten the transverse profiles using self-tapping screws. These works should be performed very carefully so as not to damage the existing wall covering and to avoid injury during the work.
Frame covering
After assembling the profile frame, the process of covering the frame with plasterboard sheets begins. The covering is carried out in two layers. Insulation should be laid between the layers. The insulation will additionally serve as sound insulation. Electrical wiring must also be laid into the resulting space. It is worth noting that plasterboard sheets are quite convenient to cut and install. Along with this, you can use chipboard and MDF boards instead of drywall.
Seam gluing, puttying, and priming
You need to know that the seams between the laid slabs must be taped with bandage tape (serpyanka). The glued areas are puttied with a mixture for a rough finish, and then with a finishing layer. The formed joints must be primed. However, you can find the process of puttingtying drywall described in the article on our website.
Finishing work for a new dressing room
The simplest option for decorating the exterior and interior of a dressing room with your own hands is to wallpaper the plasterboard. It is also possible to carry out a wood finish. In addition, various decorative panels are used for finishing. Experts claim that painting walls will be more durable. In this case, it will be necessary to prime and putty completely the sheets of drywall.
Floor installation
This stage of work has many options. However, tiles will be the best for this room. In addition, you can use carpet, linoleum or parquet. The next step will be the interior arrangement of the room.
Door installation
An excellent option would be sliding doors. This type of door will look great in a dressing room.
Features and Benefits
All the necessary things in perfect order and always at hand - this is the main idea of any dressing room. And if at the same time it is located at the exit from the apartment, then that’s just wonderful! In addition, if the dressing room is located in the hallway, you don’t have to place bulky wardrobes in the rooms, for example, in the bedroom, as is usually the case.
There is more space and light in the house.
Unlike other options, the dressing room in the hallway is ideal for storing purely outdoor items - gloves, scarves, umbrellas, sports equipment and clothes. If space allows, in such a dressing room it is quite possible to place household supplies, as well as a safe, electric meter, alarm control panel, etc.
Of course, you need to allocate space for a dressing room. In the spacious hallway you can make a built-in wardrobe. If you cover its walls with the same wallpaper as the walls of the hallway, visually it will resemble a niche. In some apartments, by the way, such niches are created on purpose.
It’s very good if a storage room adjoins the hallway on one side - you can combine these two spaces.
The dressing room in the hallway can be of three types:
A closed dressing room is a large closet. As a rule, it is closed with sliding doors with a mirror on the outside. Open - shelving with shelves or open storage systems with rails for hangers and baskets. Such a dressing room takes up less space, but requires perfect order, because... everything is visible in it.
A combined dressing room is a system where part of the space is open, and part - for example, the upper or lower shelves - is closed from view. This allows you to maintain order and also put away those things that you do not use daily.
How to organize a dressing room in a one-room apartment?
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A dressing room, as you know, is a separate room for storing clothes, linen, and things. In terms of its internal volume and capacity, it surpasses several sliding wardrobes, at the same time for the price of one wardrobe. Separate pages of this site are devoted to the types of dressing rooms and their layout.
Now let's talk about how to be the owners of one-room apartments, where there are no large niches or separate rooms for organizing a dressing room there. After all, it’s not always possible that a closet can accommodate all the linen, clothes, and family belongings.
Naturally, if you have a very small room, then we can only talk about a separate closet, which will occupy a small space in the room. In this case, you can also use the hallway to organize linen closets there.
If your apartment has a large room, and you can separate some part of it to organize a dressing room without compromising your personal space, then in this article you will find some tips on the optimal layout.
The simplest and most frequently used option is to separate the room with compartment doors, from wall to wall, as in the picture. At the same time, we recommend making the internal depth behind the doors no less than 110 cm. Subtracting 10 cm for the depth of the door mechanism and 50 cm for the depth of the shelves with rods on the rear wall, you will only have 50 cm left to go inside.
At the same time, racks with shelves can be added along the left and right walls. You will get a “U”-shaped structure along three walls, covered with compartment doors.
The interior space can be organized to suit any of your needs: shelves, hanger bars, accessories (tie holders, trouser racks, shoe racks), drawers. In this case, the entire internal structure can be made 50 cm below the ceiling, in order to use the roof as a mezzanine shelf for storing large items on it.
The second option is to separate only the corner diagonally with compartment doors.
Design project of a one-room apartment with a dressing room
They organize the drawers themselves and arrange them according to the type of laundry. In the future, this convenient item can also be used for accessories (belts, ties, scarves). A large number of dividers in a drawer will determine its functionality and help you place various items more conveniently.
Shelves and racks are great for keeping things organized, but they are expensive.
Ordinary baskets and boxes can replace cabinets for accessories. They are made to match the style of the entire dressing room and are used for clothes that are not related to the current season.
A special place is designed for shoes where they will not be subject to modifications or deformations. Special care and the creation of a separate module will allow you to preserve your shoes for many seasons. The convenient location of the mirror is also taken into account so that you can see yourself in full growth and in good lighting.
Tips for choosing the design of a one-room apartment
This option is suitable for small spaces. With this arrangement, only a small area of the room in the corner is devoted to the dressing room design. Of course, the capacity of such a dressing room is much less compared to the previous version, due to the extreme narrow shelves adjacent to the corners and the emptiness in the center of the triangle.
But there are also advantages here - this is a more economical option in terms of cost, since the number of compartment doors is always less; Takes up less space in the room.
If, nevertheless, the small area of the room forces you to decide in favor of a corner wardrobe, with compartment doors diagonally, then we advise you to abandon it in favor of a simple corner wardrobe. “L”-shaped closets will accommodate more linen and clothes and occupy less space and look less bulky than corner wardrobes.
The above describes 2 main options for planning a dressing room in a one-room apartment: straight, with separation of part of the room by compartment doors perpendicular to the side walls, and corner, with separation of part of the room diagonally.
In practice, different combinations of these options are used, often with the use of modules for the TV zone in the center of the front part of the dressing room, since in a small one-room apartment any design must be universal.
It is possible to combine both options in one design by placing the compartment doors obliquely, if this is dictated by the internal arrangement of the room.
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Having a separate dressing room in a large country house is not a luxury, but an urgent necessity. The reality is that more things accumulate here than in an ordinary apartment - these include warm clothes for cold weather, interior items, household utensils, and various accessories.
Having some kind of storage room or attic for all this wealth is undignified. But a well-organized dressing room will ideally suit your needs. This way you will create conditions that will only contribute to pleasant rest and relaxation, removing all unnecessary things in their places. Moreover, if the space allows you to allocate a separate room for storing things.
Dressing room in the form of a sliding wardrobe up to the ceiling
Despite the fact that the dressing room in the pantry and room is compact, it is not always accessible. The way out of the situation is to purchase a wardrobe that reaches the ceiling.
It can be straight or angular. When choosing, base your choice on the area and layout of the one-room apartment.
In addition, almost all stores provide a service for making furniture to individual sizes, so if there is a niche in the room, you can order a unique wardrobe that reaches the ceiling.
The advantage of a wall rod is that it can be turned over and attached not to the wall, but to the ceiling.
Floor hangers
Floor hangers are available in the form of a stand with hooks and a rod on supports. On the second, you can use hangers that prevent clothes from getting wrinkled. Some models have compartments for shoes.
Expert opinion
Smirnova Ekaterina Anatolevna
7 years of experience in interior design, professional architect
Floor hangers are made of metal and wood. The only difference is that the latter look more noble. But if a one-room apartment is decorated in high-tech style, then they will be inappropriate.
Hooks for doors and walls
Hooks for doors and walls can be either inconspicuous or bright, lined up in one row or scattered in a chaotic manner. It all depends on your taste.
Hooks for doors and walls are ways to hold everyday clothes - blouses and skirts, T-shirts and jeans, little things like scarves and hats.
We also recommend:
Special door hangers
Special door hangers are a real godsend for schoolchildren and students. It will hold not only everyday clothes, but also shoes with a backpack, as well as textbooks.
Where to place the dressing room
Planning of premises for dressing rooms should be carried out at the stage of construction of a country house. In premium-class houses, the private area with bedrooms and storage systems should be on a separate floor. But if space allows, then ideally a separate dressing room is allocated for each adult resident. The standard size of the corresponding room for one person can reach 10-12 square meters. meters in floor area.
In principle, a storage system can be placed in any free space in the house. For example, this could be under the stairs leading to the second floor.
Traditionally, the storage system is located in close proximity to the bedroom. An excellent option for a spacious home is to locate the dressing room between the bedroom and the bathroom. Any secluded corner that can be fenced off with sliding doors will also work.
At the request of the customer, it is even possible to optimize the useful square meters of the attic, and take full advantage of its structural advantages into a full-fledged dressing room. For this purpose, special sliding wardrobes are made taking into account the height of the wall and the angle of the roof.
Working on the lighting
The most convenient option is cornice lighting or ceiling lighting around the perimeter. Individual spotlights can be placed in areas that require additional lighting: in niches or above the dressing table.
Even in mini-dressing rooms, and even more so in large ones, ventilation is necessary: in a closed room, a musty smell quickly appears, which no perfume can mask. Therefore, even when planning, find a way to make ventilation in the dressing room.
The principle of its design is no different: in the upper part of any of the walls, preferably further from the door, an exhaust hole is made into which a fan is inserted. The inflow is provided either into the gap under the doors or into special inlet openings located just above the floor level. They are closed with decorative grilles.
Principles for organizing ventilation of a dressing room through a bathroom
When choosing a fan, you should pay special attention to the noise level. Since dressing rooms are often located in or close to bedrooms, noise should be kept to a minimum. It can be controlled automatically or turned on/off using conventional or walk-through switches.
The lighting should be bright. Firstly, this is necessary to quickly find things, and secondly, dressing rooms are often used as fitting rooms to immediately see how well the selected items fit together. The mirror is usually placed on the door or mirrored doors are made. In this case, the light should be directed not only to the shelves and storage systems, but also to the fitting area.
One of the lamp options
You can use lamps of any type, but it makes sense to make them turn on from motion sensors. They opened the doors - the lamps came on, there was no movement, they turned off. There is another option for swing doors: there are lamps with buttons that light up when the door is opened and turn off when they are closed.
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The night area is just right for a dressing room
Based on a study of the everyday life of families, a functional diagram of a residential building is developed. Designers distinguish 2 main zones: day and night. In the classic version, if the house is two-story, then the night zone will include a bedroom, dressing room and bathroom. If there is only one floor, then the night zone can be located in any part of the total area of the house. But this scheme of functional zoning of a house is not the only one. Many designers welcome the placement of a common dressing room on the ground floor in the hallway, next to the entrance.
For a storage room, you need to think carefully about not only the lighting, but also the ventilation system. It is advisable to always maintain low temperature and humidity here to avoid unpleasant odors.
It’s good if there is a window in the dressing room, with which you can always ventilate the room. In a house with a forced supply and exhaust system, an exhaust duct is installed in the dressing room. Thus, air enters there through a gap in the door from the next room with a supply duct.
It is worth considering installing climate control in your home.
What is a dressing room for?
Wardrobe rooms are designed for organized storage of clothes, shoes and accessories. The presence of such a specialized room will free up the space of a house or apartment from unnecessary things and furniture, giving them greater comfort.
- A well-thought-out dressing room arrangement provides many advantages:
- You can use the entire space - from floor to ceiling.
- Clothes and shoes are hidden from prying eyes.
- Plenty of storage space.
- Each thing has its place, and at the same time they are all in sight.
- You can plan your dressing room and select equipment for internal filling individually, depending on the existing conditions. For example, use unused space in the house under the stairs or part of the corridor.
- A good location and beautiful external design (doors, mirrors, lighting) will visually improve the room and hide unsightly protrusions, beams, and uneven walls.
Wardrobe rooms can be appropriate in both small and large rooms. We will consider examples of various room layouts for storing outerwear, hats, shoes, and linen in more detail.
Dressing room in one-room apartment: 7 nuances you should know
But this point is taken into account at the design stage.
For better ventilation, also avoid carpeting in dressing rooms. This will significantly reduce the appearance of dust on your clothes. By the way, the presence of special bags with zippers and covers for your clothes will not hurt. And if you want your dressing room to remain warm in winter, then, firstly, decorate the room with environmentally friendly materials, and secondly, install a “warm floor” system.
Expensive luxury dressing room in a country house.
A dressing room is every woman's dream.
Until some time, the dressing room in the minds of our compatriots was associated, if not with palace chambers, then at least with something like a private swimming pool - an invariable attribute of luxurious life. Women could only in their dreams admire the orderly rows of their favorite shoes and the neat hangers of hangers with dresses.
Usually it is customary for us to store all things in wardrobes.
Wardrobe placement options
- Depending on the availability of free space, the dressing room can be located:
Dressing room in the room
A small wardrobe for storing a large number of things can be equipped even in a modest-sized room. The smallest dressing rooms have dimensions of 1x2.0 and 1x2.5 m.
In such a space of 2 to 3 square meters you can fit drawers, hangers and a rack, and decorate the free wall with a functional mirror sheet.
Features of the wardrobe in the bedroom
When there is no separate free space, a storage room can be arranged in the bedroom.
If the size of the bedroom allows, then you can allocate space along one of the walls for a storage area, dividing the space with a partition or sliding doors.
Expert opinion
Smirnova Ekaterina Anatolevna
7 years of experience in interior design, professional architect
The role of such a partition can be performed by a high rack with a passage or a cabinet the entire height of the room. Between the structures, as a rule, a little free space is left, which is later used for changing clothes.
In a bedroom of a non-standard shape, the correct location of the dressing room will improve the geometry of the room: visually expand the room that is too long and narrow, hide the presence of niches or protrusions.
Design of a dressing room in the hallway
The most successful option would be to place a dressing room in the hallway, if the dimensions of the room allow.
If the hallway has the shape of an elongated rectangle, then the most appropriate option would be a wardrobe built along one of the walls.
This arrangement will allow you to use maximum space for storing a large volume of things, and sliding or folding doors (photo) with mirror filling will visually expand the space of the hallway.
Interior of a dressing room in the hallway
There are different ways to place a dressing room in a hallway or hallway. It all depends on the size and design project.
A dressing room can consist of an open or closed shelving and cabinet, mezzanines, drawers, special shelves for shoes and other elements.
Even in the narrowest hallways, it is possible to place a dressing room with sliding doors if you make it of a non-standard depth: not 60 cm, but only 40 cm.
If a large corridor has an irregular shape, using plasterboard walls you can divide the space into two rooms, one of which will become a dressing room.
If there is an empty niche that can be filled with narrow side shelves, mezzanines, lower drawers and metal rods, it will become an excellent alternative to an expensive wardrobe that simply has nowhere to put it.
Dressing room in the pantry
Even in very small apartments, where there is no question of a special room for clothes, there is a space reserved for a pantry or closet. If you wish, you can easily turn it into a comfortable dressing room with your own hands.
To do this, you will need to clear the room of trash and extra shelves, install holders for things and install lighting.
A mini-wardrobe with access to the corridor is recommended to be used for outer and seasonal clothing, out-of-season shoes, and bags. This will help relieve space in living rooms. This solution is also preferable from the point of view of hygiene rules.
Having a larger storage area opens up wide planning possibilities, but requires a thoughtful approach to the arrangement of storage systems. It is also very important to take care of sufficient ventilation of the room, protecting things from moisture, insects, animals and foreign odors.
How to perfectly organize a dressing room
The first and main issue is space. Do you have a small apartment and are you unsure about the usefulness of a dressing room? Excuse me, but it is precisely for you that it is vitally necessary. By putting all your things on shelves - from clothes and shoes to sports equipment - you will save living space in your rooms. And a dressing room with sliding doors, and even a properly planned one, will in no way be a hindrance to its use: such sliding doors are convenient to open and close without creating obstacles in a limited space, and they will also provide natural ventilation to the new room. And if you make them mirrored, you can visually increase the volume of the hallway.
Take a look around and consult with the designers. They will definitely tell you how to use the niches, storage rooms and seemingly inconvenient corners in the hallway. All these elements will help create your dressing room design and organization. You can choose and think over the required number of shelves and compartments, as well as their location. So, on the mezzanine you can store sports or travel equipment, place shelves with seasonal shoes at eye level, and if space allows, you can even install a washing machine here.
The more space you can allocate for such a room in the hallway, the more spacious your living spaces will become. And most importantly, you will have another cozy room at your disposal in the house, where you can be alone with yourself to put yourself in perfect order in front of the mirror and tune in to the great things that await your decisions.
Dressing room in the hallway of a studio apartment.
Dressing room with sliding compartment doors.
Finding a suitable place
Unfortunately, in the one-room apartments of the houses that are being built now, there are no storage rooms, since they are simply not needed.
But our grandparents prepared all sorts of goodies for the winter, so in the one-room apartments in Khrushchev there are closets, sometimes even several. A dressing room instead of a pantry kills not one, but two birds with one stone. Firstly, you will have a place to store all your clothes and shoes and, secondly, you will finally throw away the garbage that has accumulated over many years and will no longer clutter your home with things that “what if you need it.”
For lighting fixtures, you can take a chandelier (main lighting) and an LED strip (additional lighting). Additional lighting is a real lifesaver when you need to get dressed or undressed while other family members are still sleeping.
As for the design, when buying paint, wallpaper or other finishing material, make a choice in favor of pastel colors, for example, white, milky, beige. Calm shades do not overload the room and give it lightness. Don't forget about mirrors. They are not only functional, but also visually expand the space, which is especially important for one-room apartments.
The inside of the closet door will hold scarves, belts and ties. Just glue on hooks or hangers.
Depending on the layout, in a typical one-room apartment you can always find 2–4 meters for a dressing room. Moreover, in such apartments now the walls are often partially dismantled, which makes it possible to implement almost any planning ideas. For example, you can arrange a dressing room behind the head of the bed or, if necessary, expand it at the expense of the corridor. And if you want more free space, then a small dressing room can even be in the center of the apartment.
Redevelopment: option 1
Redevelopment: option 2
Redevelopment: option 3
